Jere Takahashi teaches Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

• CONTENTS Preface Introduction Chapter 1 The Issei Legacy: From Entry to Exclusion Chapter 2 Grant Avenue Blues: Pre-World War II Nisei Socioeconomic Position Chapter 3 "Lower the Anchor": Formation of Nisei Perspectives Chapter 4 "Constructive Cooperation": Submersion of Ethnicity and Rising Significance of Americanization Chapter 5 "Making Do": Reentry to American Life Chapter 6 More than "Conservative": Postwar Political Styles Chapter 7 "Divided by Color": Changing Racial Context Chapter 8 "From Our Own Point of View": Coming to Terms with the 1960s Conclusion Notes Index

"On the ever fluid and elusive topic of political identity, Nisei/Sansei is one of the most important books to appear on this subject in the last decade. With a careful and yet engagingly written socio-historical analysis, Takahashi develops a compelling case for how the shifting economic and social context shapes the political options and strategies. In that sense, this is a book primarily about political theory and political mobilization-but with a substantive focus on the specific history of Japanese-Americans." --Troy Duster, Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley "Jere Takahashi's ambitious exposition of Japanese-American politics from the 1920s into the 1970s is a major contribution to Asian-American studies. His attention to nuance and detail not only illuminates their political lifestyles but also gives us another vantage point from which to view post-World War II America." --Roger Daniels, Charles Phelps Taft Professor, History, University of Cincinnati "Nisei/Sansei is a timely study; it takes us beyond the rhetorical denunciation of 'identity politics' by giving us scholarly insights into the relationship between identity and politics for Japanese Americans." --Ronald Takaki, author of Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans "Nisei/Sansei makes an important original contribution to Japanese-American Studies. Past studies of the Nisei generation have been premised on the assumption of generational homogeneity. In contrast, Takahashi's study is premised on the existence of crucial subsets within the Nisei generation and presents those subsets in terms of different Nisei responses to racial subordination within a larger economic context. This is at once the strength and originality of Takahashi's work which explains the triumph of the accommodationist response among the Nisei during and after World War II and the emergence of Sansei militance in the late 1960's... Not only will this book be of interest to Japanese-Americans and other Asian Americans, but to anyone interested in the sixties and wartime internment of Japanese Americans." --Yuji Ichioka, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles